Decoupled HMI Software Architecture developed by Mecel and General Motors.
Mecel AB today announced a strategic development on “Decoupled Human Machine Interface Software Architecture” together with General Motors. The result of the project is an embedded software product to be used in production vehicles and a PC configuration tool for HMI design and configuration. This architecture enables increased flexibility, shorter time to market and drastically reduced cost for life cycle management.
HMI (Human Machine Interface) design is one of the most challenging areas for today’s car manufacturers. The HMI must at the same time be safe to use in traffic and be attractive for the customer. A steady increase in information provided to the driver gives further stretch to this challenge. Traditional written specifications are often subject to interpretations, resulting in incomplete designs, late changes or dropped functionality. A traditional software development approach also tends to lead to an ever increasing software complexity, resulting in high cost for software development, test and verification. On top of this comes the complexity and costs for brand differentiation; every branded variant should ideally have a different look and feel whilst keeping the software and hardware platform intact.
